@ZLabe here is a really good article by #GeorgePacker for #TheAtlantic that is set in, and largely about #Phoenix, AZ, its heat, water, America, MAGA, etc. It's beautifully written. It's a 'gift article,' thus all the url embroidery.
What Will Become of American Civilization?
Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the nation’s fastest-growing city
By George Packer
Photographs by Ashley Gilbertson
The Atlantic: Sally Jenkins to Join The Atlantic as a Staff Writer in September
The hollowing out of the Washington Post continues.
"And in all insomniacs, throughout the night, the arousal centers of the brain keep clattering away, as does the prefrontal cortex (in charge of planning, decision making), whereas in regular sleepers, these buzzing regions go offline." —Jennifer Senior for The Atlantic
Love it when websites get worse for no reason. #TheAtlantic's photo essays used to have keyboard nav (jk for prev/next photo, etc), direct-to-photo anchor links for sharing, and RSS feeds. now they have NONE OF THOSE 
https://www.europesays.com/us/71349/ Nicholas Thompson on AI’s impact on search #ArtificialIntelligence #Internet #NicholasThompson #Technology #TheAtlantic #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US
The U.S. Will Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Aid - #TheAtlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
So $800.000 worth of food will be destroyed at the cost of another $130.000.
(Via @anneapplebaum on BS)
The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/birth-rate-population-decline/683333/
#HackerNews #BirthRateCrisis #PopulationDecline #TheAtlantic #Ideas #2025 #News
The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/birth-rate-population-decline/683333/
#HackerNews #BirthRateCrisis #PopulationDecline #TheAtlantic #Ideas #2025 #News
The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard–It's Worse
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/birth-rate-population-decline/683333/
#HackerNews #BirthRateCrisis #PopulationDecline #TheAtlantic #Ideas #2025 #News
This article sure hit home and confirms much of what I suspected in my dealings with Blue Shield, such as incomprehensible phone trees, missing records, dropped calls, and repeated refusals to refer the case to a supervisor. In my case, I was lucky California has an insurance office you can get involved to help with a complaint. Still, it took 6 months, 18 calls totaling over 12 hours, several emails, and a letter to CA to get the $3300 that Blue Shield owed me.
Me, too. I also dropped the #LATimes at the same time for the same reason.
Support and read #TheGuardian #CalMatters #KPFK #KALW #KQED #PacificaNews #HCN (HighCountryNews) #Cityside #Berkeleyside #TheAtlantic #BayNature #BerkeleyScanner
Reluctantly subscribe to #NYTimes , but my commitment to that rag is tenuous.
Like @dandrezner , I was surprised by noted hawk #RobertKagan's opinion about US strikes on #Iran: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=5aUYI8dJ_4U5JTdJqsIAqwzbXk7nlcFLPaxDqLj0C5E
If anyone knows a dev at the #Atlantic, I’d like to discuss their keyboard UX for Bracket City. Currently the gutters next to A and L on their software keyboard are dead zones. Best practice is that the entire keyboard area should be a live tap zone, with those gutters translating to A and L respectively (this is how all native software keyboards work). I keep missing a perfect score because of missed keystrokes and this is unsustainable
Just noticed that Alexandra Petri has left the #WashPost and moved to #TheAtlantic. That made me instantly subscribe to the Atlantic again. Let's see how long I last with it!
Link around #TheAtlantic paywall:
"An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris
My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat."
By Caity Weaver
June 5, 2025, 6 AM ET
Searching for #News in the #Fediverse? I have now collected 1043 official/verified accounts by media organizations and the number is still growing.
They are not only on #Mastodon or #Flipboard (although most of them are).
For example, I have now 6 that are federated via @index@activitypub.ghost.org (#Ghost)
They are:
@feed@404media.co
@index@urbanandcity.com
@feed@leicester.news
@index@thebrowser.com
@index@levernews.com
@team
Find them & more:
https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
Sadly #Platformer (by @caseynewton) or #TheAtlantic are still missing. Any more that I missed?
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout: https://archive.fo/Z8EPW
Su The Atlantic un articolo che non ha bisogno di commenti sui contenuti e sull'orientamento politico del #SocialNetwork di Elon #Musk
Ma che cosa ci fa la gente ancora su X?
Immagina se il tuo bar di quartiere preferito si trasformasse in un ritrovo nazista.
#X #fascismi #FarRight #razzismo #TheAtlantic
@scuola
@maupao @informapirata
@Khrys
@gubi
@RFancio
@aral
@quinta
@wikimediaitalia
Kinda curious how Bluesky is taking the "humourless" tag from that clown Atlantic writer....
Sincerely, Inscrutable Mastodon
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
who would have expected that.
America gets what it has chosen.
Have fun with your MAGA
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/big-beautiful-transfer-of-wealth/682885/
#theatlantic
#America #USA #MAGA #tax #rich #poor #Politic #Corrupt #Government #Washington
Olen alkanut miettiä, pitäisikö tilata #TheAtlantic, siis verkkolukuun. On ollut viime aikoina amerikkalaisen vapaan #lehdistö'n kantavia voimia, ja semmoista tarvitaan erityisesti kun diktatuuri uhkaa. #journalismi #vapaasana #fasismi #maailmanpolitiikka
